First roll from my Barnack

[jmooney]

Here are the two best from the roll. I one got 17 shots out of the roll as I was "extra careful" with the loading:

Aunt Pete (aka Aunt Dorothy) 92 years old:

Aunt Pete with my youngest daughter Abby - they are the bookends of 4 generations that span 91 years:

1937 IIIa with matching 50 Summar collapsible on Kodak 400CN process and scan at local CVS. All I did was rotate and resize.


I really enjoyed using it but the minimum focus distance the squinty finder were issues. The squinty finder is a IIIa problem but the min focus distance is a larger issue with me and RF's. I'm always batting my head against that wall.

I hate to say but my RF's may have to start playing second fiddle, I just seem to need the 19" MFD that an SLR and a 50 give me.


Jim

 

[Robert Lai]

Jim,
Don't fight it! Get a 90mm lens - you can pick up an old Leitz Elmar 9cm f/4 for around $100 in reasonable condition (they often have haze though, so plan on getting service to remove it). This makes a perfect portrait lens at 1m range.

It's so nice to see the alpha and the omega of the generations of your family. My wife recently lost her grandmother at 101 years old. Still a loss even after a few months! Treasure her while she is still alive and well.

 

[easyrider]

Nice start! Why would he get a 9cm lens? For this type of scenes a 5cm is good. The tele requires a viewfinder. There are often parallax problems on a Barnack. Cartier Bresson only used the 5cm!

 

[Robert Lai]

I only mention the 9cm lens because he seems to want to get closer (which you can't with the 1m restriction) to fill up more of the frame. A longer focal length is the only way around that. For environmental portraits, the 50 is doing fine.

 

[helen.HH]

off to a GREAT Start !

 

[xxloverxx]

Cartier Bresson only used the 5cm!

I think he used lenses from 35mm to 90mm. I have heard that he had a book of photos made only with a 50, but he used other focal lengths as well.